Desire Quotes - Page 8

I have no desire to prove anything by dancing ... I just dance.

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.

I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.

You are made in the image of what you desire.

Of course we do not live in order to eat, but it is not really true to say that we eat in order to live; we eat because we are hungry. Desire has no further intentions behind it... it is a good will.

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose — there has never yet been one able to do it. Should I expect to be the one?

There are desires that we all want to achieve, but remember respect is most greatest to receive.

Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.

Hope always draws the soul from the beauty which is seen to what is beyond, always kindles the desire for the hidden through what is constantly perceived. Therefore, the ardent lover of beauty, although receiving what is always visible as an image of what he desires, yet longs to be filled with the very stamp of the archetype.

At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God.

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

Poor is the man who desires a lot

We all want a United Africa, United not only in our concept of what unity connotes, but united in our common desire to move forward together in dealing with all the problems that can best be solved only on a continental basis.

The desire to see Okinawa returned to Japan developed into a broad national consensus among our people.

A great deal; you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way; they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.

To fight against one's desires is the greatest of all fights.

All happiness comes from the desire for others to be happy.

A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.

When life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought.

A "Bay Area Bisexual" told me I didn't quite coincide with either of her desires.

My stiffest earthly assignment is ended and my major life's work is done. My country is now free and I have been honoured to be its first indigenous head of state. What more could one desire in life?

Nothing is impossible to the person who backs DESIRE with enduring FAITH.